In her debut as a director, Scarlett Johansson delivers a generally absorbing movie about Holocaust memory, identity and grief. Eleanor the Great stars June Squibb as Eleanor Morgenstein, a spry and feisty 94-year-old widow whose life is upended when Bessie Stern (Rita Zohar), her roommate and best friend, dies. Bessie’s passing compells her to leave […]
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Eleanor The Great
